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Not every trigger needs to be managed or mastered. Save for actual concerns for safety, sometimes these triggers can be the best kind of gift if you can find a good way to work with them-which is not spiritual bypassing, avoidance, denial or rationalization. If you go with the fitness analogy, this would be like working out and wishing the weights were not as heavy. I often hear about people going out of their way to avoid triggers or triggering events. “Don’t pray for life to get easier, but rather pray for greater strength so that you may be able to meet life better”. I had a fitness teacher once say to our class,
#BRAIN GYM AND ME HOW TO#
Our time together gave me the motivation to learn and understand new ways of how to work with him, and other children like him that were sure to follow. I left that school year a stronger, more resilient and proficient therapist. I did a lot of brain gym for myself, and I also taught the classroom teacher a lot of brain gym to use with the whole class. But that was not an option and I needed to find a way to give myself resources to work with this child. There were days when I did not want to see this child. This cycle of feeling relatively comfortable with my skillset and being able to address most things that come up, and then meeting a student or a situation that I feel at a loss with, then reach for new skills and tools, is something that I have noticed in my work, as well as in my own personal development journey. I explained to him that this was to “wake up his feet to get his body ready to work and learn” But more importantly, it was a way for me to build rapport and peacefully disarm the child of his “weapons”. Once inside, initiating the session with a gentle foot massage with yummy smelling lotion. Very quickly after the unfortunate sneaker incident, this student and I settled into a routine of him removing his shoes and socks before entering my room. I really really dislike feeling like I don’t know what to do. Not feeling like I have the answer, or can fix/help the situation, is a really big trigger for me. I remember giggling at the time but now, seeing him there breathless, with balled fists, all three feet of him in a fit of rage, I remember thinking….
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As the sneaker whizzed by my head….I remembered reading, “Uses shoes as weapon” in this child’s IEP.